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Segregation

noun

(genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes.

A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups. Synonym: separatism.

The act of segregating or sequestering. Synonym: sequestration.

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"Segregation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Beyond the segregation of the imbecile, the insane and those who have committed crime, it is dangerous to go. The course of preventing crime lies in the other direction, better opportunity and ...

— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow

... them and whom they often loved and clung to above the others, and a Jewish contributor to the paper, Dr. Eder, pointed out in admirable letters how divided was the medical profession itself on what constituted mental deficiency and whether family life was not far more likely to develop the mind than segregation with other ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... It is easy for those who have no relatives or friends among them to enforce the decree of segregation to the letter, but who can write of the terrible, the heart-breaking scenes which that enforcement ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... There were four. A long table seating ten and punctuated by two sets of cruets, two plates of bread, and two white-china water pitchers; Mr. Hazzard's tiny square of individual table, a perpetual bottle of brown medicine beside his place. The Kembles also enjoyed segregation from the mother table, the family invariably straggling in one by one. For the Beckers was reserved the slight bulge of bay window that looked out upon the Suburban street-car tracks and a battalion of unpainted woodsheds. A red geranium, potted ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... become fully cognizant of the burden of the imbecile upon the whole human race; when we see the funds that should be available for human development, for scientific, artistic and philosophic research, being diverted annually, by hundreds of millions of dollars, to the care and segregation of men, women, and children who never should have been born. The advocate of Birth Control realizes as well as all intelligent thinkers the dangers of interfering with personal liberty. Our whole philosophy is, in fact, based upon the fundamental assumption ...

— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger

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